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Chris Coons
Sign in to saveAlso known as Senator Christopher Andrew Coons, Christopher A. Coons, Christopher Andrew Coons, Christopher Coons, Christopher Andrew "Chris" Coons, Chris Andrew Coons, Senator Chris Coons, Senator Coons
American lawyer and politician (born 1963)
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 2
Top works
- Choose You This Day, Second Edition
- Forever Optimistic
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Film & TV
Acting · Greenwich, Connecticut, USA
Christopher Andrew Coons is an American lawyer and politician serving as the junior United States Senator from Delaware since 2010. A member of the Democratic Party, Coons served as the county executive of New Castle County from 2005 to 2010.
Known for
- Year One: A Political Odyssey — Self2022
- The Sunday Show with Jonathan Capehart — Self - Guest2020
- Firing Line with Margaret Hoover2018
- Firing Line with Margaret Hoover — Self2018
- Real Time with Bill Maher — Self2003
- Jimmy Kimmel Live! — Self (archive footage) (uncredited)2003
- The Daily Show — Self (archive footage) (uncredited)1996
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- STAR: ultrafast universal RNA-seq aligner
· 2012 · cited 49,596x
- Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome
· 2001 · cited 18,514x
- Geneious Basic: An integrated and extendable desktop software platform for the organization and analysis of sequence data
· 2012 · cited 17,720x
- A global reference for human genetic variation
· 2015 · cited 17,368x
- Observational Evidence from Supernovae for an Accelerating Universe and a Cosmological Constant
· 1998 · cited 16,012x
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Key facts
- Preceded by
- James Lankford
- Succeeded by
- James Lankford
- Born
- Christopher Andrew Coons , ( 1963-09-09 ) September 9, 1963 (age 62) , Greenwich, Connecticut , U.S.
- Party
- Democratic
- Spouse
- Annie Lingenfelter ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1996 )
- Education
- Amherst College ( BA ), Yale University ( MAR , JD )
- Website
- Senate website , Campaign website
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Wikidata facts
- Official website
- chriscoons.com
- Image
- Chris Coons 2024.jpg
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- Chris Coons
- date of birth
- 1963-09-09
- name in native language
- Christopher Andrew Coons
- phone number
- +1-202-224-5042
- Commons Creator page
- Chris Coons
- P10632
- Chris Coons
- affiliation string
- Delaware
- number of viewers/listeners
- 1249705
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Christopher Andrew Coons (born September 9, 1963) is an American lawyer and politician serving as the senior United States senator from Delaware, a seat he has held since 2010. A member of the Democratic Party, Coons served as the county executive of New Castle County from 2005 to 2010.
Raised in Hockessin, Delaware, Coons graduated from Amherst College in Massachusetts, where he joined the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity. He received graduate degrees from Yale Divinity School and Yale Law School. He went to work as a volunteer relief worker in Kenya, where he had taken classes at the University of Nairobi, later returning to the U.S. to work for the Coalition for the Homeless in New York. He spent some time as a legal clerk in New York before returning to Delaware in 1996, where he spent eight years as in-house counsel for a materials manufacturing company. In the interim he worked for several nonprofit organizations.